Crucifixion of St. PeterSt. Peter being crucified upside downLuca Giordano
Saint Peter was martyred during the reign of the emperor Nero, around the year 67 or 68 AD, during the first persecution of the Christians.He was crucified upside down in the Circus of Nero, which was located in the exact same area where the Basilica and beautiful Saint Peter’s Square s...
Be that as it may, this confusion is further echoed by the apocryphalActs of Philip[27], which relate the miracles and death of the Apostle Philip and place his and Bartholomew’s crucifixion upside down in the city of Hierapolis. The same tradition is echoed in theMartyrdom of Andrew, whi...
And Peter says if we hear Jesus’s command to repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus, we receive both the forgiveness of sins and the Holy Spirit; becoming bridges between heaven and earth (Acts 2:38). The prayer is answered in us as God’s kingdom comes. We do not have a ...
For the wonderful thing is this; that we see one who was so weak before the Crucifixion, become after the Crucifixion, and after having believed in the Resurrection, more zealous than any. So great was the power of Christ. The very man who dared not go in company with Christ to Bethany...
In the Carrow Psalter the images petered out after the Psalter—with the books of Hours you’re going to see a lot more of images and they are going to be much more thoroughly integrated across the volume and within the text. The images that the anchoresses would have seen in these ...
If the two are the same person, then John was the only apostle mentioned as being present at the Crucifixion of Jesus (John 19:26–27), and a dying Jesus entrusted the care of his mother, Mary, to John. Similarly, “the one whom Jesus loved” and Peter were the first apostles to ...
Be that as it may, this confusion is further echoed by the apocryphalActs of Philip[27], which relate the miracles and death of the Apostle Philip and place his and Bartholomew’s crucifixion upside down in the city of Hierapolis. The same tradition is echoed in theMartyrdom of Andrew, whi...
If the two are the same person, then John was the only apostle mentioned as being present at the Crucifixion of Jesus (John 19:26–27), and a dying Jesus entrusted the care of his mother, Mary, to John. Similarly, “the one whom Jesus loved” and Peter were the first apostles to ...